There’s a good chance the next mayor of Kansas City will be gay…
And I’m not talking about Kansas City councilman Jolie Justus.
Because according to several sources, the openly gay Justus’s opponent, Quinton Lucas, is also gay…just not out of the proverbial closet yet.
“I heard that Quinton Lucas is closeted gay,” says one prominent gay woman professional. “And that there may have been a man in the car with him.”
That in reference to Lucas’s high profile DUI bust in Lawrence late last year.
After months of legal maneuvering Lucas made a deal with the court to write a check and dodged a bullet by getting the charges dropped. And thanks to the hush hush way Lawrence Police and prosecutors handled his case, the full police report and dash cam video of his arrest have been kept hidden from the public.
More on that, in a minute…
Back to the the reason Kansas City, Missouri is likely to field its first gay mayor:
“Because both candidates are gay,” says one politically active Westport businessman, Lucas supporter and donor. “That story’s been out there for a long time.”
Ditto, adds another Lucas supporter and midtown businessman: “Quinton will be Kansas City’s first closeted mayor.”
There’s more…
“You hear lots of different rumblings about that,” says one politically active woman marketing exec who asked not to be named. “And I’m not sure that he is, but I hear from the gay community that he is. But the black community thinks he’s got some white girlfriend tucked away and that he’s straight. But gay guys are adamant that he goes to gay bars.”
Knowing Lucas as well as she does, the exec’s best guess as to which way he swings:
“I think I would go with gay, because he’s lied about so many things (to me) that he’s adept at it,” she says.
Adds an openly gay woman mental health professional, “I heard that he was (gay) from two separate people at two different functions. Obviously, no one is upset about him being gay, but they call him a douchebag because he hides it while Jolie is totally out.”
Back to Lucas’s DUI bust…
They don’t come much tighter lipped than Lawrence Police spokeswoman Kim Murphree – especially when it comes to keeping reporters as far from the facts as possible.
“The front page of the Kansas Standard Offense Report (KSOR) that is available to you does not contain any arrest information,” Murphree emailed me in response to my request to see the full police report on Lucas DUI charge. “In the State of Kansas, Kansas Standard Arrest Reports (KSAR) are mandatorily closed (see Kansas Attorney General Opinion 98-38). The KSOR will show the date, time, place, and type of incident (statute) and statistical information that is sent to the Kansas Incident Based Reporting System.
I have nothing further.”
That said, when I started to leave after being turned down by Murphree in person, I turned and asked, “Could I at least see the police video of Lucas arrest?”
To which Murphree shot back – in a moment of candor – “Everybody wants to see that video.”
The only guy I would voter for named “Lucas” is Lucas McCain. Man, could that guy shoot!
Plus, he was gay too.
From Wiki on Lucas McCain-
“Also, in “The Sister”, Mark asked Lucas if he would remarry. Lucas replied that it was “only natural” for him to consider a second marriage. Mark asked when Lucas might marry again. He reassured Mark: “When I find the right woman.” Mark asked what the qualifications would entail. Lucas told Mark that he would know the right woman “when I meet her son.” With a big grin on his face, Mark asked, “What will she be like?” Lucas replied, “Well, she’ll have to cook and sew and scrub…(snip) Ride a horse like a man.”
The only thing he didn’t refer to, was, the “reach around”.
Ewwww….
If Hearne knows Quinton Lucas is gay, than I am just as sure, that Lucas McCain is gay. He would fire that rifle in a priapic, prestigitational performance worthy of an 1880’s Freddie Mercury microphone stand toss. The similarities and anonymous sources are too much to ignore. The man is a wild west Butt Pirate.
Who cares? What a great mayor Lucas McCain would make, compared to that ass vandal Quinton Lucas. The pot holes would be fixed, the streets cleared of thugs and if Lucas wanted to spend his nights like Mayor Pete “Spank Me” Buttigieg in post coital bliss after watching “Shaving Private Ryan”, who cares?
The current candidates for Mayor in Kansas City are tax and spend AOC acolytes (I got that from an “anonymous” source.), supported by the local instrument of destruction known as the Kansas City Star, which is nothing more than a vehicle for Democrat Agitprop.
We are truly T-Rexxed up the ass in this city.
Quite the clever comment, Chuck…
But for the record, I have no idea if Lucas is gay or not. Just reporting the word on the street among political insiders.
What I do know is he was hardly forthcoming on the particulars of his DUI arrest, which does to some extent call into question this honesty.
🙂
Thanks for giving us the inside scoop,which we would otherwise never receive from The Star. I think the interesting point is that we have changed as a community to the point that the two finalists for mayor are gay and no one cares. ( I’m also more bothered by the Lawrence incident’s handling than the incident itself.) How far we’ve come is evidenced by a conversation with one of my old college professors and his husband. I explained how I’d just seen a fellow attorney who is chairman of one of the largest law firms in the Midwest. Not surprisingly he is; a) a Republican ,b) an Episcopalian, and c) an Ivy League and prep school grad. He is also; d) gay,and e)African-American. The old categories are so scrambled anymore,in short, that all the predictable partisan signifiers are out the window.Just look at the 2016 and 2018 elections.
Hearne, do you remember doing a story around 1998 on a guy who would go around to bars and restaurants and say he was Jeff “Skunk” Baxter from the Doobie Brothers? That guy came into a restaurant I was working at and a bunch of people bought his story. Anyway, you wrote about it in the Star a couple of days later and I laughed so hard. Just wondering if you remember that.